service tax on import airfreight

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CS Vandana Kacholia

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15 July 2009 Whether service tax is applicable on Import airfreight?

CA.Hanumantha Reddy

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15 July 2009 service tax is payable only on services not on goods purchased or procured or imported.

CS Vandana Kacholia

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16 July 2009 thanks for your reply.

I am having one more query regarding service tax

Whether service tax is applicable on Charge collect fees which is a particular percentage of freight, collected for collecting freight at destination port.

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Vandana

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CA.Hanumantha Reddy

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17 July 2009 understood that for inward goods you are paying certain freight charges on percentage bases. If it so, it is liable for service tax.